Army Science and Technology Master Plan (ASTMP)

I. Strategic Overview

A. Background
B. Vision
C. Overview and Trends
D. Summary

II. Near- and Mid-Term International Cooperative Opportunities

A. Opportunity Assessment Overview
B. Aerospace Propulsion and Power

1. Ceramic Materials for Gas Turbine Engines (France)

C. Air and Space Vehicles

1. Aeromechanics (France, Germany, Israel)
2. Handling Qualities Research (Germany)
3. Stability and Control Analysis (Germany)
4. Rotor Data Correlation (Germany)
5. Helicopter Crash Survivability (France)
6. Cockpit Integration Technologies (Germany)

D. Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense

1. Laser Sensors for Remote Detection of Chemical/Biological Warfare (CBW) Agents (France)
2. Mass Spectrometric Technologies Cooperative Project (Germany)
3. Biological Detector (BD) Formerly All Agent Biological Chemical Detector (Canada, United Kingdom)
4. Regenerable Collective Protection Filtration Techniques for Combat Vehicles (Germany)
5. Decontamination of Sensitive Electronic Equipment (Germany)
6. Bioprocesses for Remediation (Germany)
7. Modeling and Simulation in Distributed Interactive Simulation (TTCP: Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand)

E. Individual Survivability and Sustainability

1. Soldier System Technology (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom)
2. Lithium and Ni-M-H Batteries and Fuel Cells (France)

F. Command, Control, and Communication

1. Real-time Distributed AI-based Data Fusion (France)
2. Air/Land Enhanced Reconnaissance Targeting (ALERT)
3. Battlespace Command and Control (BC2) ATD
4. Vehicle Mounted Mine Detector (VMMD)
5. Command Post Communications (Germany)
6. Machine translation (Germany)
7. Next Generation Tactical Switches (France)
8. Battlefield Interoperability Project (France)
9. International Command and Control systems Interoperability Project (IC2-SIP) (Germany)
10. French-English Machine Translation of C2 Messages (France)
11. Intelligent Command Aids (UK)
12. Tactical Level Allied/Coalition Force C2 Simulation (France)
13. Fuzzy Logic in Mission Planning and Decision Making (France)

G. Computing and Software

1. Photonic Devices for Optical Computing (France)
2. MPP and Neural Network Programming (Germany)
3. Algorithms for Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) [NATO Groups]

H. Conventional Weapons

1. Hypervelocity Vehicle Propulsion (Japan, Germany)
2. Electrothermal-Chemical Propulsion Technology (United Kingdom, Israel)

I. Electronic Devices

1. IR Focal Plane Array Fabrication and Packaging (France)
2. Development of Indium Compounds for MMIC/MIMIC (Germany)

J. Electronic Warfare/Directed Energy Weapons

1. Advanced Materials for Visible Solid-State Lasers (France)

K. Environmental Quality and Civil Engineering
L. Battlespace Environment

1. Atmospheric Effects (Israel)

M. Human System Interface (HSI)

1. Human Performance Modeling (HPM) (France, Germany, United Kingdom)

N. Manpower, Personnel, and Training

1. Virtual Reality and Training (France)

O. Materials, Processes, and Structures

1. Processing of Tungsten Alloys for Penetrators (South Korea)
2. High Density Tungsten Carbide Ceramics (France)

P. Medical and biomedical Science and Technology

1. Infectious Diseases of Military Importance (Thailand, Kenya, Israel)
2. Medical Chemical Defense Research (United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Germany)
3. Medical Biological Defense Research (United Kingdom)

Q. Sensors

1. Hetero-Epitaxial Growth For Multidomain Sensors (France)
2. Optical Processing, Optical Components, and Optoelectronics (U.K.)
3. Advanced Materials for Short Wavelength Lasers (France)
4. Acoustic Sensors (Israel)
5. Combat Identification (Germany)
6. Target Characterization (Israel)
7. Automatic Target Recognition (France)

R. Ground Vehicles

1. Next-Generation Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Control System (AUTONAV Project) (Germany)
2. Combat Vehicle Crew Compartment Design/Technology (Germany)
3. Combat Vehicle Electric Drive (Germany)
4. Secondary Batteries (France)
5. Combat Vehicle Survivability (Germany)
6. Combat Vehicle Structures and Design (Germany)

S. Manufacturing Science and Technology
T. Modeling and Simulation

1. Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)

III. International Research Capabilities and Long-Term Opportunities

A. Overview
B. Mathematical Sciences
C. Computer and Information Sciences
D. Physics
E. Chemistry
F. Materials Science
G. Electronics Research
H. Mechanical Sciences
I. Atmospheric and Terrestrial Sciences
J. Medical Research
K. Biological Sciences
L. Behavioral, Cognitive and Neural Sciences

Figures

E-1. The International Armaments Cooperation strategy (IACS) Focus

Tables

Chapter I

E-I-1. Highlighted Near/Mid-Term Opportunities
E-I-2. Highlighted Long-Term Opportunities

Chapter II

E-II-1. Aerospace Propulsion and Power
E-II-2. Air and Space Vehicle
E-II-3. Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense
E-II-4. Individual survivability and Sustainability
E-II-5. Command, Control, and Communications
E-II-6. Computing and Software
E-II-7. Conventional Weapons
E-II-8. Electronic Devices
E-II-9. Electronic Warfare and directed Energy Weapons
E-II-10. Civil Engineering and Environmental Quality
E-II-11. Battlespace Environmental
E-II-12. Human-System Interface
E-II-13. Manpower, Personnel, and Training
E-II-14. Materials, Processes, and Structures
E-II-15. Medical and Biomedical Science and Technology
E-II-16. Sensors
E-II-17. Ground Vehicles
E-II-18. Manufacturing Science and Technology
E-II-19. Modelling and Simulation

Chapter III

E-III-1. Mathematical Sciences
E-III-2. Computer & Information Systems
E-III-3. Physics
E-III-4. Chemistry
E-III-5. Materials Science
E-III-6. Electronics
E-III-7. Mechanical Sciences
E-III-8. Atmospheric and Terrestrial Sciences
E-III-9. Medical Science
E-III-10. Biological Sciences
E-III-11. Behavioral, cognitive & Neural